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INTRODUCTION
herited. No syncopated forms occur; on trisyllabic forms see VII 14 (v)
above. Acc. sg. m. is ‘nockum'; sg. n. adj. or adv. variously ‘nockut’,
‘nockuð’.
(vi) Nom. and acc. sg. m. are ‘einn huer’, ‘einn huem’; sg. n. ‘eitt
huert(t)’; f. acc. sg. ‘ein hueria’; see 16/5, 42/12, 33/3, 34/1, 37/1, 26/3.
(vii) Forms of hvár(r)tveggja are in ‘-tueggia’, 22/20, 28/14, 32/7,
Þs. 200/12, 201/15, but the two exx. noted of the nom. pl. m. are in
‘-tueggiu’, 28/34, 37/26.
5. Demonstratives. (i) Sá, sú,þat show regular forms in oblique cas-
es save for a single instance of ‘þeima’, dat. sg. m., 19/32. In Js. the
dat. sg. n. appears as ‘þui’ and ‘þi’ in almost equal measure; in Þs. ‘þi’
outnumbers ‘þui’ by about three to one. There is no indication of gemi-
nated r in þeirar, þeiri, þeira.
(ii) Nom. sg. sjá “this” is rare, noted only at 28/65 (m.) and Þs.
190/33 (f.). The acc. sg. m. is regularly ‘þenna’. On endings in trisyl-
labic forms see VII 14 (v) above.
6. The article is always in hi-.
7. Verbs. (i) The middle voice ending is most often <z), frequently
<zst), rarely <zt); in monosyllabic forms a preceding dental is usually
not spelt: ‘birtiz’, ‘plantaðiz’, ‘tyniz’, ‘synduz’, ‘fengiz’, ‘andaðiz’,
‘fanz’, ‘kuez’, ‘bauz’, ‘hofz’, ‘Redz’ (Þs. 190/35, cf. ‘Rez’ Þs. 189/24),
‘uirz’; ‘birtizst’, ‘Hrærezst’, ‘minnazst’, ‘nælgazst’, ‘andaðizst’, Tizst’,
‘rezst’, ‘hofzst’; ‘kuezt’ 15/25, past parts. ‘reiztt’ 10/34, ‘g(i)orzt’
15/12, 41/9. After / or r the ending is <st> and there are instances of
<st> in the pret. sg. of biöjast: ‘dualst’, ‘skilst’, ‘eflst’, ‘forst’, ‘barst’;
‘baðst’ 14/11, 39/10, Þs. 206/47 (cf. ‘bazst’ Þs. 193/18).
(ii) Misc. and Þs. show no exx. of man(-) forms of auxiliary munu,
but in Js. they occur in all the sg. cases, most often in the third sg. in-
dic., where ‘mun’ and ‘man’ appear in about equal numbers. Third sg.
subj. pres. ‘mani’ and pret. ‘mandi’ have been noted at 11/7, 20/11.
First sg. pret. is ‘munda’; second pl. pret. indic. ‘þer mundut’ 12/42
(where the first <u) is corrected from <a», subj. ‘munði þer’ 15/8; third
pl. pret. subj. is ‘mvndi’ 14/37, 33/6, ‘myndi' 40/22, 42/2.
(iii) First sg. pret. of skulu is ‘skyllda’; third pl. always ‘skylldu’
(and as pret. inf. 33/8).
(iv) First and third sg. pres. indic. of vilja is ‘vil’ (‘uil’), but third sg.
‘vill’ occurs at 11/13. Second sg. pres. is also ‘uil’ at 15/10, 13, but ‘þu
uillt’ 14/42, cf. ‘vill tu’ 38/8. First sg. pret. is ‘uillda’; third pl. ‘villdu’.
(v) The inf. of eiga is written ‘eiga’; third pl. pres. indic. is ‘eigu’.